When Harry Met Meghan: A Royal Engagement (working title) premieres Tuesday, December 12 at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT and will reflect on Harry and Meghan's lives leading up to their engagement as well as what is to come for the royal couple.

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The special will share the surprising similarities in their early childhoods — both Harry and Meghan were raised by separated parents and received private educations — and also their differences growing up in the royal world versus Hollywood. It also will explore Meghan's race, divorce, and role as a human rights ambassador, plus relationship highlights: first outings, the media's reaction to the couple, and rumors around the engagement.

You can look forward to appearances by Meghan's half-sister, Samantha Markle, and some of her closest friends, including actress Abby Wathen and reporter Tom Sellers, as well as Queen Elizabeth II's former press secretary Dickie Arbiter, and several royal correspondents and editors. Plus, English constitutional historian David Starkey will discuss the royal family's history and culture, in addition to Meghan's future as princess.